June 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere

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This is definitely winter now!
We've had frosts and finally some rain. Parts of southern Australia have been experiencing drought while the north has been having floods! This is certainly a land of contrasts.
Here is the main offering to start this thread - Narcissus 'First Stanza' raised by Lawrence Trevanion in Canberra from a crossing of Narcissus elegans var fallax with Narcssus 'Soleil d'Or'. Pics taken a few days apart - the second two after an attack by critters - possibly parrots.
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[Jeffnz]

All parts of Narcissus are supposedly poisonous to birds, not sure about your native parrots.

[pfirsich48]

Hmm!  Hummingbirds feed on the nectar here in Maine, US with seemingly no I'll effect

[Jeffnz]

I am no avian expert but did google the topic and that is what I posted.

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The damage done was the nipping off some of the blooms, which is typical for parrots. So they don't actually eat the flowers.
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Oxalis purpurea 'Alba'
A reliable winter flowering oxalis with a tendency to spread by stolons
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This is a nerine we received as "Salmonea" - an unverified name.
It has the appearance of Nerine undulata but a much deeper colour.
One suggestion is that it is an old UK raised hybrid called 'Gloaming'
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One of our friends supplied this Oxalis glabra with white flowers stained on the exterior with the pink of the typical form
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The first flower (as far as I know - it'd be easy to miss) of Androcymbium ciliolatum (now considered Colchicum  capense ssp  ciliolatum).
Seed from AGS Seedex 2008, sown 17-05-2008.
First seedlings: 13-08-2011.
First flower: ~28-06-2025.
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